LucasFilmGames? Isn’t that a little bit like StreetFighter The Movie The Game?

After experiences with the Xbox 360 and other consoles overheating, I’m all for giving as much available space for air cooling as possible. This is especially true in a first-generation console.

If everything else made sense in the console naming, that would sort of make sense for the S and X distinction. I’ll give you that.  But “One” versus “Series?” “Series S” makes it sound like the S’s go together. But All “Series” actually go together, while all S’s are separate generations from each other.

The naming…

I’m glad they’ve finally managed to recapture what made the 2D Sonics great. But retro will only get them so far into the future. I’d love to see a remake / reinvention of Sonic Adventure 1, as a doorway to more 3D based Sonic games that aren’t terrible. Quite frankly, knowing that Sega remembers how to make a good 3d …

I’d take a wild guess that labor in Tokyo is relatively expensive, and they’re going to outsource that to China or another area with lower labor costs.  If the robots are $10,000 each, and reduce labor costs by $10 an hour, they will pay for themselves in about 6 months.

How well does it support real gamepads?  (Xbox, PS4, MFi)?

Honestly, I’d like to play Red Dead Redemption 2, but can’t bring myself to spend yet another $400 to upgrade my gaming PC again. The nice thing is I could buy the game on Stadia for regular price and still get to play it. Yes, it will be on 1080p maximum, and the latency is the big open question. But I wouldn’t have…

I recently picked up an Oculus Quest out of professional curiousity. I wasn’t expecting it to be as truly... different as it is, but it is.  It really feels like a NES.  It’s a nanocent technology that is just barely good enough to be good enough.  And while it has real and obvious shortcomings, what it offers really…

Just adding data to this: Nintendo of Japan says Splatoon 2 has sold 8.7 million units. That’s close behind Pokemon Go (10.6 million together), Zelda (12.8 million), Smash (13.8 million), Mario Odyssey (14.4 million), and Mario Kart (16.7 million).  For a not-really established property, that’s huge.

“While our financial results for 2018 were the best in our history, we didn’t realize our full potential.” Translation: We made a lot of money, but we would have made more money if we didn’t have workers. I must admit, it keeps getting harder and harder to stay in this industry.

If having my credit card on file isn’t proof of age enough, my Steam account itself is old enough to buy adult games.

It looks like the level designers cleared out a little bit of the mid-map distractions so that the player could focus on combat. It looks like a similar thing happened to the backgrounds as well, where the unimportant elements became a bit more blown out to reduce visual interest and to focus the player more on the…

I don’t think I’ve seen Nintendo mention of any 3rd party online multiplayer games, like Fortnight or Street Fighter. Is it really $35 a year just for Splatoon, Mario Kart, and Brawl?  That feels like it’s kneecapping the release potential of Nintendo first party games.

That is Morteza Khajehjahromi, a relatively young but professional stunt rider. http://stuntermegaman.com/bio/

Here he is two years ago doing a stand-on motorcycle stunt at a show in Arizona. One of his shticks seems to be dancing on top of bikes. https://www.lawtigers.com/law-tigers-celebrate-15-years-in-style-with-the…

My guess is there is a difference between Dev, QA, and Release servers that bungled their automated tools. I don’t have any special knowledge about their environment, but they probably have QA on one server in one farm with virtualization creating the illusion of more locations, and Release on thousands of servers in…

Just FYI: Your #3 isn’t wireless headphones.

Just FYI: Your #3 isn’t wireless headphones.

I keep seeing walls and other surfaces that are un-inked by the end of a match, which those pesky rollers couldn’t touch if they wanted to. A lot of my near-matches came down to how many walls we inked. While others are focused on killing, it can be really helpful to just work on gaining unclaimed territory. Those are…

Piko has announced plans to finish Glover 2. So, I’m not surprised they didn’t want to sell the rights to the game they were already making.

I honestly wonder if that is what is keeping Twin Galaxies in the news / relevant. I love them, I love the concept, and I wish them well. But Billy Mitchell actually breaking the Donkey Kong high score got nowhere near as much press as the controversy surrounding it.

Does anyone know how much of a development budget could be expected for a single-restaurant exclusive arcade title? Under the old pricing model of 5,000 a unit, and there being 106 Dave and Busters, that would come out to a total budget of just 530,000, and a development budget of maybe 265,000. That’s *maybe* a team…